[off topic but appropriate] Re: Can't compile Fortran in Fedora 7

[Richard England]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>   
>> with some monumental snippage George Yanos sent:
>>     
>>> If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you
>>> can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. 
>>>       
>> 00
>> C4
>> C2
>> 19
>> C2
>> C4
>> 00
>> 00
>>
>> I still say you're not a real programmer unless you've entered data into
>> RAM using DIP switches to load the binary.  None of this using a
>> programmer to do it for you business...
>>
>>     
> I can remember toggling in the papertape loader so that I could load
> the system monitor, stopping the loader at the end of the tape. The
> toggle in the start address of the monitor, and start running it. It
> sure saved a lot of work when the system monitor was finely burned
> to an EPROM, and you could just start it. But I can not picture
> using DIP switches to load anything - they are too hard to change
> and would not take all that many changes. (Unless I am not
> understanding what you mean by DIP switches - the ones I have seen
> fit an IC socket.)
>
> Mikkel
>   

I believe he was referring to the bank of switches on the front panel of 
his computer by which you could set the memory locations, thereby 
entering the boot program.

Boy what a pain that was.

~~R